{"id":3932,"date":"2006-12-09T20:21:57","date_gmt":"2006-12-10T04:21:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2006\/12\/09\/geeks-and-film\/"},"modified":"2019-12-20T11:27:49","modified_gmt":"2019-12-20T19:27:49","slug":"geeks-and-film","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2006\/12\/09\/geeks-and-film\/","title":{"rendered":"Geeks and Film"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:6184,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/developers.slashdot.org\\\/article.pl?sid=06\\\/12\\\/08\\\/2238220&amp;from=rss&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/developers.slashdot.org\\\/article.pl?sid=06\\\/12\\\/08\\\/2238220&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:6185,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.drivl.com\\\/hackers.html&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:6186,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.vibrant.com\\\/blog\\\/servers-in-the-movies-our-top-ten&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20150131172829\\\/http:\\\/\\\/www.vibrant.com:80\\\/blog\\\/servers-in-the-movies-our-top-ten\\\/&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-08 19:45:32&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-25 07:22:17&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-07 14:00:50&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404}],&quot;broken&quot;:true,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-07 14:00:50&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:6187,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.drivl.com\\\/code.html&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;pending&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>Three amusing articles, all <a href=\"http:\/\/developers.slashdot.org\/article.pl?sid=06\/12\/08\/2238220&amp;from=rss\" title=\"\/.: Servers, Hackers, and Code in the Movies\">via <cite>\/.<\/cite><\/a>:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.drivl.com\/hackers.html\" title=\"Drivl: Top 20 Hackers in Film History\">Top 20 Hackers in Film History<\/a>:<br \/>\n<blockquote><p>\n  My fellow Geeks! Below you will find a list of the 20 coolest, funniest, dare I say sexiest hackers and computer geeks that have graced the silver screen. While we may be misunderstood and maligned in everyday life, geeks have always been portrayed with a certain power, mystery and intrigue in movies. Practically since the word &#8216;computer&#8217; entered the American lexicon, Hollywood and the public have been fascinated with the people who make these strange electronic boxes do such cool shit.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vibrant.com\/blog\/servers-in-the-movies-our-top-ten\/\" title=\"The Remarketer: Servers in the Movies\">Servers in the Movies<\/a>:<br \/>\n<blockquote><p>\n  There are two guidelines for this list. One, they must exist only in the world of movies or TV. Second, they need to fit the following definition: <em>A server is a computer system that provides services or data to other computing systems\u2014called clients\u2014over a network or other communication device.<\/em>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.drivl.com\/code.html\" title=\"Drivl: What code DOESN'T do in real life (that it does in the movies)\">What Code DOESN&#8217;T Do in Real Life (That it Does in the Movies)<\/a>:<br \/>\n<blockquote><p>\n  I understand that Hollywood needs to dress things up to make them more entertaining, but in the case of programmers, code, and hackers they&#8217;ve done more than dress things up  &#8211; they&#8217;ve morphed a little stuffed teddy bear into a cybernetic polar bear covered in christmas lights and phosphorescent hieroglyphics with a fog machine pumping rainbow smoke out of his ass.   In other words, they&#8217;ve layered a ridiculous amount of extravagance on top of something that in reality is very grounded.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Top 20 Hackers in Film History, Servers in the Movies, and What Code DOESN&#8217;T Do in Real Life (That it Does in the Movies)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2038,2037],"tags":[23,39,65],"class_list":["post-3932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech","category-tv-and-films","tag-film","tag-links","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3932","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3932"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3932\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}